Owen is a game designer who writes about games in his spare time.
It has felt like another terrible year for the games industry, with more studio closures, project cancellations and layoffs. Including me! I spent most of the year...
Earlier this year I went to Develop – a big UK game development conference in Brighton – and while walking round the expo hall I was approached by a recent...
I went to Japan recently, and one thing I did there was visit the new Nintendo museum. It’s a place that lots of nerds are interested in, but it’s somewhat...
It’s been a year of… more lows, mostly? I gather it’s been a record-breaking year for games industry layoffs. It’s also been a particularly...
It’s been a year of highs and lows in the games industry, much of which felt like the long tail of the Covid pandemic wagging around in unexpected ways. A lot of...
Thoughts on (nearly) every game I've played in the year 2022.
It’s a NEW YEAR, baby! You know what that means – the relentless march of death and misery continues apace, while I sit down and write some thoughts about...
I was recently asked to provide some entertainment for my nephew’s 10th birthday party – a Saturday afternoon event with a total of nine attendees, aged...
I’ve spent over 1,000 hours playing Monster Hunter games over the last ten years, so I feel like I have some qualified opinions on the new one. In short: I like...
Literally 13,000 words about every game I have played during this, the year of Waluigi